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New 'fingerprints' added to chemical identification database
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its database of chemical fingerprints, called…
Gut bacteria may modify behavior in worms, influencing eating habits
Gut bacteria are tiny but may play an outsized role not only in the host animal’s…
Molecular containers for the sequestration of neurotransmitter drugs in water
Molecular containers that remove drugs, toxins, or malodorous substances from the environment are called sequestering agents.…
Earth's species have more in common than previously believed
The Earth hosts an abundance of life forms—from well-known animals and plants to small, more hardy…
New study suggests that hard eggshells evolved at least three times in dinosaur family tree
New research suggests that the first dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs—a finding that contradicts established thought. The…
Knock-knock? Who's there? How coral let symbiotic algae in
New work from a team of Carnegie cell, genomic and developmental biologists solves a longstanding marine…
Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very…
Tomato's hidden mutations revealed in study of 100 varieties
DNA and all. After centuries of breeding, what was once a South American berry roughly the…
First egg from Antarctica is big and might belong to an extinct sea lizard
In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious fossil in Antarctica that looked like a deflated football.…